I can't belive it. When I google "JoeUser", my site is the top user site, right after the JoeUser homepage, despite the lack of articles on my site. This is an attempt to sort out the reason for this, and an apology to the JoeUser community for the injustice done to so many great bloggers at JoeUser. Background: About half a year ago I test ou
Several more observations: Slashdot is good for link-collection, as most people's comments are short remarks on various tech news or trendy links. Plastic.com tries to be slashdot for all other subjects and news, hence tend to be less focused and less interesting. On JoeUser, I find lots of interesting topics that are not necessarily recent news, but issues of long term social relevance. They tend to be good and thoughtful articles, be
While Slashdot has been the primary techie community which also allows a degree of blogging and forum, it is not user friendly as JU in terms of allowing my family to see my blog. The voting system is more controlable at JU. So overall, if JU will focus on certain topics, it will be a much user-friendly version of slashdot.
While other blogging sites offer only blogging, JU allows the additional feature of community discussion/forum. I will see if this is indeed superior.
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